Sunday, September 30, 2012

Working people
frequently ask retired people what they do to make their days interesting.

Well, for
example, the other day my friend and I went into town and went into a shop. We
were only in there for about 5 minutes. When we came out, there was a cop
writing out a parking ticket.

We went up to
him and said, "Come on man, how about giving a senior citizen a
break?" He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. I called him a
Nazi turd. He glared at me and started writing another ticket for having worn
tires. So my friend called him a butt-head.

He finished
the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first. Then he started
writing a third ticket. This went on for about 20 minutes. The more we abused him,
the more tickets he wrote.

Personally, we
didn't care. We came into town by bus and saw the car had an Obama sticker. We
try to have a little fun each day now that we're retired. It's important at our
age.

Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.

Was it any
wonder then, that a whole passel of back-woods wretches, possessed for decades
by bellicose and fiscally irresponsible demons both Bushian and Clintonian,
should wind up such a benighted lot of “working-class lunch-pail folks”
bitterly “cling[ing] to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like
them or anti-immigrant sentiment…as a way to explain their frustrations,” and
needing an Obamic exorcism? None
at all.

It's a good
thing we're sending our children off to college in record numbers, huh? This,
Ladies and Gentlemen, is what some of you have saved for all of your lives.
It is what you have sacrificed or deferred vacations, dental fillings, the
occasional steak, knee-replacement surgery and new cars for. It is why you have
indebted yourself for the rest of your natural life with second mortgages and
school loans.

Is that simply
a joke among those tasked with ensuring the safety of this messianic tyrant? Or
is it the truth? It’s a strange vision, but less strange than a lot of the
established facts.

Strung out to
its logical conclusion would mean anyone staring at this woman in disbelief would
be a racist. Thinking for even a moment that this woman’s thinking represents
everything that is wrong in America today would be racist.

It’s is
imperative that we continue to try to reveal how Obama got into Harvard. It
wasn’t his grades; we know that because he won’t release them. Have you found a
single thing the Narcissist-in-Chief will not brag about if it furthers his
legacy? No,
there isn’t a single thing.

Let’s waste
the media’s time. On Election Day, I’m for hanging around and giving Chuck
Todd, Chris Matthews, The New York Times, MSNBC, the sell out pollsters, and
the rest of the brain dead, intellectually dishonest mainstream media, a
nice big shit burger to eat.

Enjoy
it, you child. There's not one other president who would have dared spew
such a pathetically juvenile sneer.

“The
president’s decision to circumvent the American people by installing his
appointees at a powerful federal agency while the Senate was continuing to hold
sessions, and without obtaining the advice and consent of the Senate, is
an unprecedented power grab.”

Finally,
reporters other than Jake Tapper are standing up on their hind legs and
pointing out the wreckage Obama's bumbling foreign policy has caused. His
administration's stumbling and chaotic response to the latest violence overseas
was
too much to paper over, apparently.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Joe Scarborough took the mainstream media
to task for largely ignoring President Obama's "Bumps in the road"
comment over recent unrest in the Middle East. Scarborough also lambasted
Obama's Middle East policy and his lack of relationships with leaders in that
part of the country.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

On August 27, 2012 Bret Stephens wrote a stinging
appraisal of this president’s failed foreign policies. His piece appeared in the Wall
Street Journal sixteen days before the barbaric murders of four
Americans at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi on the eleventh anniversary of
9/11.

“I tend to
think that the buzz about American decline mistakes the mediocrity of the
president for the destiny of the nation. But we have an election on, the
outcome of which will decide whether one man’s mediocrity becomes a whole
nation’s destiny. Mr. Obama is now the world’s leading has-been, trying to
revive a career on the strength of a talent that was greatly exaggerated to
begin with. But a country that’s willing to reward mediocrity with a second
chance risks becoming a has-been itself.”

In his piece,
Stephens comments that “the president would rather be loved than feared. He is neither.”

I chose to
Photoshop the picture associated with this post by substituting the American
flag that had been set ablaze while a group of radical Muslims look on with the
flag that his Obamaness is now hawking on his website.

His failed
effort to improve America’s standing in the Muslim world with the now-forgotten
Cairo speech and his comment while on the 2008 campaign trail where he
boasted “when I’m inaugurated Muslim hostility will ease” rings hollow. Ambassador Stevens could not be reached for
comment.

Former U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations, John
Bolton said, “And what's unmistakable, despite the bluster which is coming
from the Obama administration, they [the Muslim world] are not afraid of the
United States. They do not fear this president. They do not fear the United
States. They do not fear consequences for their actions.”

“Islamists
rise across North Africa from Mali to Egypt. Iran repeatedly defies U.S. demands
on nuclear enrichment, then, as a measure of its contempt for what America
thinks, openly admits that its Revolutionary
Guards are deployed in Syria. Russia, after arming Assad, warns
America to stay out, while the secretary of state delivers vapid lectures about
Assad ‘meeting’ his international ‘obligations.’ The Gulf states beg America to
act on Iran; Obama strains mightily to restrain…Israel.”

“Sovereign
U.S. territory is breached and U.S. interests are burned. And what is the
official response? One administration denunciation after another — of a movie
trailer! A request to Google to ‘review’ the trailer’s presence on YouTube. And
a sheriff’s deputies’ midnight ‘voluntary interview’ with the suspected
filmmaker. This in the land of the First Amendment.”

“What else can
Obama do? At their convention, Democrats endlessly
congratulated themselves on their one foreign policy success: killing Osama
bin Laden. A week later, the Salafist flag flies over four American embassies,
even as the mob chants, ‘Obama, Obama, there are still a billion Osamas.’”

I’ll close
with this. Froggy at Blackfive attended the funeral of Tyrone Woods, the former
Navy SEAL who was murdered at the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi while trying to
protect Ambassador Christopher Stevens.

Ty's widow,
Dorothy, delivered an inspiring eulogy with more grace, poise, and fervor than
I have ever witnessed from the spouse of a fallen warrior. I wish I had
the entire thing on tape, as it should be read by the nation on the anniversary
of 9/11 next year. Here are two quotes that I will never forget.

"It is
easy to write a book about being a Navy SEAL, but it is very hard to write an
obituary for one."

"To all
the Operators here today I give you this charge: Rid the world of those
savages. I'll say it again, RID THE WORLD OF THOSE SAVAGES!"

Monday, September 17, 2012

“On September 17, 1787 the Continental
Congress put the finishing touches on the legal framework that binds these
united sovereign states together. That charter creates and simultaneously
limits the federal government in its powers toward the states and the American
citizen. Drawing from the 1776 Declaration of Independence, the Constitution
enshrines our rights as having come from beyond the auspices of government, and
therefore inalienable.”

“Depending on
your perspective, the US Constitution is either the most significant product of
the Enlightenment and the most ingeniously designed body of laws in human
history, or it is a ‘charter of negative liberties’ that fails to enshrine ‘social
justice’ because it does not accomplish the redistribution of wealth.”

Obama announces Letterman appearance
on the same day he snubbed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Susan Rice,
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for the Obama regime, made the rounds
this morning on ABC’s This Week,
NBC’s Meet The Press. CBS’s Face The Nation, CNN’s State of the Union and Fox News Sunday.

She repeatedly
lied to viewers insisting that the howling, bearded, bloodthirsty cutthroats
responsible for the September 11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi that
killed four Americans was in response to a 13-minute video trailer on YouTube™. She described it as “spontaneous”.

On CNN’s State
of the Union, Rice argued that the assassination of ambassador Christopher
Stevens was not evidence Obama’s policies in the Muslim world have failed.

She said those responsible for the attack represented a tiny pocket of
extremism fanned by an anti-Islamic film and that anti-American sentiment was
not sweeping Libya nearly a year after it was liberated. “I’ve been to Libya
and walked the streets of Benghazi myself,” she said. “The U.S. is extremely
popular in Libya,” Rice said. Yes, we
are little Susie, as a target.

Curiously,
Mohammed Yussef Magariaf, Libya’s president of the General National Congress
flatly contradicted Rice’s assertion saying an investigation “leaves us with no
doubt” the attack was not spontaneous.

“It was
planned, definitely, it was planned by foreigners, by people who entered the
country a few months ago, and they were planning this criminal act since their
arrival,” Magariaf told CBS.

Let me state
for the record that I am no foreign policy wonk, but I am fully capable of
recognizing helplessness when I see it.

For months
before the most recent attacks on U.S. embassies in North African states,
Foreign Ministry and U.S. State Department officials had been arguing over
developments in these countries. Senior figures in Jerusalem claimed that
Washington was burying its head in the sand and ignoring the increasing
radicalization in states such as Tunisia and Egypt.

And now the
main building in the consulate stands in charred ruins and the remains of our
fallen ambassador have come home in a box.
Shameful. Simply shameful.

The dangerous
ineptitude of U.S. foreign policy has been fully exposed. The State Department told
reporters Friday afternoon that it won't answer any more questions about
the Sept. 11 attack on the consulate in Benghazi that killed four Americans
until the investigation into the incident is complete.

I will close
this post by citing the thoughts of Daniel
Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center and a New
York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the
international challenges America faces in the 21st century.

“The blood of
free men goes on dripping into the sewers of Kabul or Baghdad and a hundred
other places and the Jihad hums along. Slowly and deliberately we learn to
censor ourselves, adopting the habits of the Dhimmi, kowtowing to our masters,
praising their learning, their wisdom and above all their mercy. If they have
gone a day without killing us, does it not show what a peaceful people they
are?”

“Without going
through the formalities of reciting the Shahada or donning the Burqa, we are
becoming slaves. Our leaders have sold our rights to pay the blood price; our
cultural elites are eagerly teaching us the habits and mindset of slavery. To
always obey, to never question and to know that our Muslim masters are always
right. If they kill us, then we have done something to deserve it. If they fly
planes into our buildings, it is time for some soul searching. If they go mad
and kill, that is an expression of the pain and suffering that we have made
them feel.”

“We apologize
not because we have done anything wrong, but because they are angry. And every
time they are angry, we know that we have done something wrong. Like dogs, our
leaders develop the moral reflex of a newspaper across the nose, accepting that
they are guilty when Muslims carry out violence. The worse the violence, the
more they apologize.”

Politics is
not a playground, it’s a battlefield. Here are a few links from
conservative bloggers who are waging a war of words against the misanthropy,
priggishness, prejudice, luddism, illiberalism and irrationalism of the
mainstream media bobble-head dolls and groupthink poodles of the press corps.

Democrats and
their sharky Obamedia defense lawyers are in
a snit. For three dreamy convention days in Charlotte, they told themselves
that, for the first time in decades, it was their guy who had the upper hand
when it came to national security. Now that bubble has burst, the way contrived
narratives do when they crash into concrete challenges. At that point, an airy
president of the world won’t do; we need to have a president of
the United States, a job that has never suited, and has never been of much
interest to, Barack Obama.

In contrast
with earlier protests this week, the presence of bused-in protesters from
outside of Chicago and the clearer cries against capitalism and in favor of
union power previewed how the Chicago Teachers Union has set the stage, and is
part of,
those groups seeking broader societal upheaval.

The debates are
going to be the last three events where America will be able to compare the two
candidates mono y mono. However, the MSM has been so in the tank for Obama
during his first and this election cycle, it really makes me wonder why when
they act as moderators, they will not continue to do so and try and skew the
debates.

There
will be one advantage for Romney; Barack Obama will have no teleprompter to
rely on. Although, they’d best check Obama prior to the debate for an ear piece
where Axelrod is not feeding him lines. Romney is going to have to find his
inner “Gipper” and when Obama goes after Romney’s time at Bain Capital and
distract from Obama’s dreadful economy, say, “There you go again.”

Looking over
the events of not just the past few days, but the last 20 years, I can’t
help but wonder if instead the future prime minister wasn’t sharp-eyed and
wise.

Yesterday the
remains of Ambassador Stevens and the other service members killed during the
attack on the consulate in Benghazi were brought home. President Obama and
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton were there to pay tribute to these brave men
who gave their lives in service to their country. For the Obama campaign,
however, it was business as usual. They
had sweatshirts to sell.

Bloody
handprints. The desperate final act of a dying American in Benghazi, Libya,
is a perfect metaphor for the failed pro-Islamist foreign policy of the worst
President in America history, Barack Hussein Obama.

“We came to
help the Somalis only to die at their hands and not satisfied with that, we
admitted record numbers of them to the United States, where they have tried to
carry out their own local versions of Black Hawk Down, including the attempted
bombing of the Portland Christmas Tree Lighting ceremony. We came to help the
Afghanis and Iraqis and the Libyans and they kill us here and there and we
learn nothing from the experience."

“On September 11, the latest such date, our great victory in Libya began
turning to ashes because the brave Libyan people we came to liberate bravely
stormed our consulate and set it on fire, and then the even braver Libyan
security forces tipped off the brave Libyan people where the safe house where
the staff was evacuated to was located and more of the brave Libyan people
showed up determined to kill some Americans.”

“Government officials are busy telling us that the mobs in Benghazi and Cairo
represented only a tiny fraction of a small percentage of an extreme minority
of the population and their actions are in no way representative of the brave
Egyptian and Libyan peoples who love us a great deal and would happily chase
after us and pose for photos with our corpses if it wasn't for the trouble they
have getting American visas.”

Will our
stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable failure of a president pull a “Bill Clinton” and launch a few cruise missiles to bomb a few tents in the desert in
retaliation and claim that the crisis is abated?

The timing of
the unrest in the Middle East and the savage murder of our ambassador in
Benghazi is detrimental to the West Wing.
It is curious that the corporate-controlled central planning
stenographers laid
in wait to ambush Obama’s challenger for the White House and that the
errand boy sent by grocery clerks took shots at Romney for his criticism of the
handling of the savages waging a renewed war with America.

Is it wrong
for Romney to say, “I think it’s a terrible course for America to stand in
apology for our values.”

A revolting
example of the Left’s twisted ideology is seen in a Huffington Post blogger’s tweet on
Wednesday after it was reported that Ambassador Stevens was barbarically murdered
by Islamists in Benghazi:

100s of 1,000s of Arabs &
Muslims slaughtered by American troops. Tell me again why I should care about
whatshisname-plus-three?

“When the
Prophet-Criers climb our walls and murder us, we apologize for having offended
their religious feelings. The same religious feelings that took down the World
Trade Center as part of a murderous crusade going back over a thousand years.
They kill us and we elect a man with a Muslim background to tour the world and
explain to all the angry Muslims that we're really very nice people once you
get to know us."

“If they want to be ruled by Muslim governments under Islamic law, we'll give
that to them. If they want a billion dollars, we'll send it to them. If they
want us to apologize for having free speech, we'll do that too.”

A full eight
hours after the attacks in Cairo and
Benghazi, the White House condemned the actions of the fiends responsible, but
not before assailing Mitt Romney.

Romney’s
statement on the atrocity:

“I’m outraged
by the attacks on American diplomatic missions in Libya and Egypt and by the
death of an American consulate worker in Benghazi. It’s disgraceful that the
Obama administration’s first response was not to condemn attacks on our
diplomatic missions, but to sympathize with those who waged the attacks.”

The Obama regime
smacked back:

“We are
shocked that, at a time when the United States of America is confronting the
tragic death of one of our diplomatic officers in Libya, Governor Romney would
choose to launch a political attack.”

Instead of
showing his outrage at Romney, he should have already expressed an even
greater outrage for the murderers of innocent Americans.

No matter what
this president says today will ring hollow, insincere and calculated towards
his re-election.

The
destruction of diplomatic premises resulting in the murder of an ambassador amounts
to an act of war.

And let’s not forget that this stuttering
clusterfuck of a miserable failure of a president has not made national
security a priority. It turns out that more
than half the time he did not attend his daily intelligence briefings. Disgusting.

As Alexis de Tocqueville
observed of 19th century Americans, “The Americans combine the notions of
religion and liberty so intimately in their minds that it is impossible to make
them conceive of one without the other.”

How could it
be otherwise? It is imbedded in our founding documents. “We hold
these Truths to be self-evident …” served as a striking rebuttal both to the
idea of the divine right of kings and the notion that our rights are dispensed
by government.

Instead we
have, “All men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with
certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit
of Happiness.”

From these
founding principles arose the most benevolent superpower in history. It
has been to the benefit of Christians and non-Christians alike across the globe
that America was founded as, and remains, a country rooted in Judeo-Christian
values and ideals.

From the
Bible, in Daniel
3:18-27, we are told of the blind rage of King Nebuchadnezzar when he
learned that three Hebrews named Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego would not bow
to the golden statue he had made in his image.

He ordered them
to be thrown, bound tightly in all their clothing into a fiery furnace, to be
executed.

To make sure
the job was carried out as he had ordered Nebuchadnezzar came to the furnace
and was shocked to see four men inside the flames walking around. In his astonishment
he asked those with him if they had cast three men into the fire and they answered that truly only three men were cast into the fire. Nebuchadnezzar then exclaimed that he saw four, not three men walking around in the fire.

Stunned by
what he was witnessing, the king came near to the mouth of the furnace and called to the Hebrews to come out of the fire. The miracle was unmistaken and
Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego walked out of the flames untouched by the fire.
The Bible says not even one hair on their heads was harmed and their clothes
were unaffected and there was not even the smell of smoke on them.

How is it that
the Bible found by the firefighter was fused into the white hot metal of the
World Trade Center and yet you can easily read the exposed, unburned page?

You may be
wondering why I have focused on the religiosity of the found Bible.

We now know
that the aircraft which crashed into the first tower of the World Trade Center
was traveling at a speed of approximately 586 miles per hour—its fuel tanks
filled with 10,000 gallons of jet fuel. Twelve weeks after the terrorist
atrocity there was at least one fire still burning in the rubble making it the
longest burning structural fire in history.

Logically,
that Bible should have been incinerated, but it wasn’t. It belonged to someone who worked in the
World Trade Center and is a testament to his/her faith—and to our nation’s
faith.

By contrast,
as Daniel Greenfield writes in Towers
in Twilight, “For Islam, the game is strictly zero sum. If American
civilization thrives, then their civilization is shadowed. If people are happy
here, then their own happiness is marred. If there are two towers in New York
City, then that takes away from the glory of their civilization. Islam is the bitter beggar forever looking
to steal what it cannot have, worrying over the imaginary history of its own
greatness and cursing the upstarts in the streets of a foreign city for taking what
was rightfully theirs.” [Emphasis mine.]

Greenfield
continues, “The American who shares his good fortune with the rest of the world
cannot understand that there are some people who would rather steal than accept
a gift, who would rather destroy than build and who would rather drown the
world in darkness than accept someone else's light. With difficulty he might
accept the existence of a small number of people who think this way, but the
notion of a civilization built in this mold is too obscene an idea for him to
accept.”

It has been widely reported that this year's remembrance of 9-11 is subdued. Thousands
had attended the ceremony in New York in previous years, including last
year's milestone 10th anniversary. About 1,000 gathered by Tuesday morning,
making paper rubbings of their loved ones' names etched onto the Sept. 11
memorial.

Commuters
rushed out of the subway and fewer police barricades were in place than in past
years in the lower Manhattan neighborhood surrounding Ground Zero. On Tuesday,
much of downtown Manhattan bustled like a regular weekday, except for clusters
of police and emergency vehicles on the borders of the site.

This day evokes a
torrent of tears in me. It is heartbreaking to realize that a nation that had been bathed in innocence in 2001 became, and still is, the target of the bitter
beggars to which Mr. Greenfield so adroitly referred.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

God is nowhere
to be found in the 2012 Democratic National Convention platform.

Apparently, the
thought of God is unbearable. In a marked change from its 2008 and prior
platforms, the Democratic Party has removed the mention of God in its 2012
platform which ironically is titled "Moving America Forward."

“We need a
government that stands up for the hopes, values, and interests of working
people, and gives everyone willing to work hard the chance to make the most of
their God-given potential.”

“We gather to
reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most
prosperous nation on Earth—the simple principle that in America, hard work
should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be
able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.”

“The
Democratic platform does retain a rather muted reference to faith, stating that
faith, though it does not mention faith in God, ‘has always been a central part
of the American story, and it has been a driving force of progress and justice
throughout our history.’Apparently, the
atheists would have like even this removed.”

“The
Democratic platform states that the election ‘is not simply a choice between
two candidates or two political parties, but between two fundamentally
different paths for our country and our families.’”

“That seems
quite true, and it also seems that the path the Democratic Party has chosen is
the path without God.”

“This a
curiosity indeed: how the Democratic party claims warrant to lead a
"nation under God," and a nation whose foundational document refers
to the ‘Laws of Nature and Nature's God,’ when the natural law and the name of
God have become so abhorrent to it.”

The videos
embedded below, featuring Robert Gibbs, Rahm Emanuel, Debbie Wasserman Schultz
and Dick Durbin show how our Democrat friends are struggling to explain their
denial of God. It will be interesting to
see how their “messiah” tries to walk this debacle back.

Sunday, September 2, 2012

The good
professor at Legal
Insurrection, noting that a reader alerted him that there seemed to be an effort
underway to make Monday Empty Chair Day, is asking everyone to send him your “empty chair”
photos and he would run them.

On the final evening of the Republican
National Convention in Tampa, during the 10 o’clock hour, Clint Eastwood took
the stage. There with him was an empty
chair.

With his hair disheveled and his voice
halting, he spoke of the hope this president promised. He turned to the empty chair and theatrically
had a conversation with it.

Many of my brethren in the dextrosphere
felt Eastwood behaved like a “crazy old uncle” or that he appeared to be
rambling and incoherent. Some even said
they found his Q & A with the invisible president “painful to watch.”

One
blogger wrote, “What followed was a rambling, bizaree (sic),
disjointed, jarring, seemingly off-the-cuff performance. It was almost like the
ghost of Bob Dole had appeared.”

One commenter
added, “This was
embarrassing. It killed the energy of
the party and the people looked puzzled at times who witnessed it, and I felt
they felt they needed to applaud but weren't sure when. I felt sorry for Clint
Eastwood.”

Please do not mistake what I am saying
here. I am not being critical of that
blogger or anyone else who shared his thoughts on the performance; on the
contrary. I merely seek to have those
who share that insight view that seminal moment in a different light.

The empty chair was the Right’s Rule 5
taken directly from Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Eastwood’s roughest mockery of this regime
has the Left seething over it to the point of being irrational.

If you are not
familiar with Rule 5, it states, "Ridicule is
man's most potent weapon.It is almost
impossible to counteract ridicule. Also it infuriates the opposition, which
then reacts to your advantage."

The single most vital point to remember when conservatives
attempt to utilize Rule 5 is to never use it in anger. For ridicule to be effective it has to
be done calmly and usually with a sense of humor. His
searing scorn was even-tempered and light-hearted. It drew blood.

If you want to
understand the role that ridicule plays in the Alinsky method, and particularly
in the way in which the Obama Administration uses Alinsky, you need look no
further than Sarah Palin. From the moment that she was introduced as John
McCain’s running mate, the Alinsky machine within Obama’s campaign flew into
action at full speed to find ways to mock, denigrate, and ridicule her. Obama’s
campaign dispatched a slew of vultures to descend on Alaska in an effort to dig
dirt, stir trouble, and uncover any malcontent who might have the tiniest bit
of salacious information on the Governor.

“The messages
and tactics of Alinsky, long the monopoly of the Left, have been discovered by
the Right,” writes J.
Christian Adams.

“After
Eastwood obliterated Obama and reminded everyone of the lost hope of 2008,
Romney’s positive vision gave Americans something that has been
lacking for three years—a constructive, positive alternative vision for
America. The vision reminds people of an age before Obama, when the entire
nation watched Neil Armstrong step foot on the moon. Pride and
confidence are the alternative to diminishment and fear.”

[snip]

"In 2012, the Romney
campaign recognizes what it is up against, and last night made it
clear they know how to fight."